He can't get out of his own way. Mostly because he doesn't know which way that is. 

We all know one. The sudden philosophy major, a unique, yet universal campus specimen. Whether or not he ever "truly finds" himself is the million dollar question--though as we all know, money is worthless his world--a world that almost exclusively consists of smoking cigarettes outside the library at 4am, the deep exhale likely contrived as much as his fulfillment of a societal useless stereoype.  

[H/T: Quickmeme]